Netflix show about Elkins Park ‘serial squatter’ will be made into a movie
'Worst Roommate Ever,' the Netflix show, starts off as a bad roommate story in Chestnut Hill and quickly takes a much violent turn.
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Paul Feig, the director-producer behind hits like Bridesmaids (2011) and Ghostbusters (2016), is setting his eyes on Philly for his next film with production company Blumhouse, according to Variety.
The untitled project will be based on the Netflix thriller Worst Roommate Ever, about Chestnut Hill resident Alex Miller’s real life horror story of living with a “serial squatter.” Worst Roommate Ever, based on a New York Magazine article, is among the streamer’s most widely-watched shows worldwide. The Netflix series is also produced by Blumhouse, which is behind the 2017 hit Get Out.
The story starts in 2017 in Chestnut Hill, where Miller sublets a room to Jed Creek, a man who claimed to be a New York City lawyer who grew up in the Philadelphia area. Not only was that a fake name — his real name is Jamison Bachman — the Elkins Park native also lied about his profession. It turned out that he “knew just enough about tenancy laws to take advantage of roommates by not paying rent, refusing to leave, and, eventually, forcing them to move out of their own houses,” Inquirer reporter Nick Vadala wrote in 2022.
Things between Bachman and past roommates had spiraled out of control and got violent. Bachman was eventually arrested for killing his brother in his Elkins Park home. At 60, Bachman hanged himself in his cell at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility.
No announcement has been made of Feig’s film’s production details or release.